Section Styles - we need a small system for handling those. We use hundred of layers and we need to have a system with reusable section styles for the layers. Otherwise it becomes a mess to handle. Could be very simple like Named Cplanes or similar. Just a place where you can setup and handle “Named Section Styles”. Would work a charm! Update one place and use on 40 different layers.
And please make it possible to drag’n’drop Section Styles (and Materials!) between layers!
You take whatever property a layer has in the Layer Manager and then click-drag it to another layer! Like a Section Style or a Material. So fast and so easy. With a bit of cunning, dragging can be to several layers as well.
another additional way of doing this is to add a Section Style connection to the materials. Then the section styles could be guided by materials. As normally (real world) materials have specific section styles. Like wood would have a wood hatch. Steel a steel hatch etc …
It’s an option.
Append— The ability to choose an existing Line Type instead of only being able to Copy From Existing. In the context of Sectioning, it makes sense be able to choose the Boundary style line from within the Section Style window
Thank you the quick response. I want to make and save different section styles, where now in Rhino 8, is only possible to have “custom” and “none”. Is this in the Rhino 9 WIP?
Non cut surfaces of object would have material color / bitmap of a material, section plane would have section style either By layer, Named section style, Custom or “By Material”. Material can have attached “Named section” to it, or you dont need to attach anything, then the section would have Clipping plane fill, or default section style.
Most important is to be able to attach section style together with material. For someone, who want to do technical drawings out of realistic model with realistic materials attached it might be game changing.
